Delivery and packing apparatus for printing presses



May 3, 1932. A. TERREY 1,856,978

DELIVERY .AND PACKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESSES Filed April 13, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet l May 3, 1932. A, Y 1,856,978

DELIVERY AND PACKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESSES Filed April 15, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 A Fig 3.

May' 3, 1932- A. TERREY 1,856,978

DELIVERY AND PACKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESSES Filed April 15, 1929 5 SheetsSheet 3 Fig. 6.

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wmvron flriizarferre ATTORNEY Patented May 3, 1932 EFFEQE ARTHUR TERBEY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND i DELIVERY AND PACKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING- PRESSES Application filed April 13, 1929, Serial No. 354,952, and in Great Britain April 20, 1928.

This invention relates to printing presses. a portion of the apparatus looking in. the

direction of the arrow lin Figure 1,; V

Figure is an enlarged front elevation of With the present day press, the product, for example, magazines, newspapers, periodicals, or the like, is delivered in single 5 copies, the requisite number thereof being collected up into quires or the like and the requisite number of quires are wrapped, packed, and securely fastened.

Each of these operations has to be effected by hand thus entailing the employment of a large number of hands.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine, which may be attached to or may work in conjunction with the press, to pack and securely fasten, and if desired, wrap as Well, distinctive quantities of the product,

said packages being delivered from the press, thus effecting mechanically the several operations previously efiected by hand.

The said machine may be arranged adjacent to the usual folder of a press, and may be attached to or be incorporated in any type of press or machine.

A packing machine constructed according to this invention, comprises means whereby quires or the like of single copies of the product of the press are deposited horizontally on the wrapping and/or binding material, means to deposit a predetermined numher of the said quires or the like in a pile and alternately, that is, the backs of one quire alternate with the fronts of the next uire and means to ass said wra in and/or binding material around said pile and 5 securely fasten same.

In order that the invention and its mode of operation may be readily understood by those skilled in the art, I have in the accompanying drawings set out a possible embodi- 0 ment of the invention.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of delivery and packing apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention, having a portion broken away;

Figure 2 is an elevation of the portion broken away from Figure 1;

igure 3 is an enlarged plan view looking in the direction of the arrow 3 in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is an enlarged side elevation of the wrapper se Figure 6 is a a, a are two sisting of form of two s the usual foldin folding rollers (as seen in Figure 2).

curing means; and side elevation of the same. series of inclined tapes conendless bands mounted on rollers 12, b, c, c, and

d, d, arranged in the ides of a triangle with the the junction of' g rollers c, d of a press. Said 0, d are made up of sections 10, 10, area series of switches rotatably mounted on the horizontal shaft 11 and are adapted to be moved between either of the rollers c or (Z to ensure copies entering e, of are two 1' ed on shafts 2,

a, a. knife edged Said heaters are the correct tapes.

otary heaters suitably mount- 2 at each side ofthe tapes two vaned andare as at e2 so that each vane meets a copy and forces it out of the carrying tapes.

fif are two sitioned under mounted at 9, 9

supporting slats or forks posaid tapes and pivotally so that they can be rotated to assume an horizontal position.

After the supporting slats f,

for example,

have been turned to the horizontal position and it is necess like which is supported on the wrapping material j,

moved apart ho 4). through cam. l

beater shaft 2 through the worm This horizontal ary to lower the quire or the slats f, on to the said pair of slats are rizontally (see Figures 3 and movement .is effected which is rotated from the gearing 3.

The slats f are provided with keys free to slide in shaft 4 ally by virtue o rods 8 and 9 an and are timed to move later f the sleeves 5 and 6, lever 7, d cam 1.

Arranged vertically between the shafts g,

. g are two guide members it, it the upper portions of each of which have hinged portions k1, hl, to allow the passage of the roller a.

he wrapping material j which is passed between the two portions h and ill is drawn from the reel k which is ratchet fed and brake controlled and passes over the guide roller Z and the reciprocating roller u and is secured to the bracket m b hooks 20.

y means of. a series of pivoted ioo the roller wand the-bracket m.

'then'spring back, piercing and Rotation of the slats 7, fl is efiected by a cam n engaging a roller 0 which is connected to said slats by rods p, p and bell crank g.

The cam 1 also operates the switches 10 through the bell crank s and levers t, t.

m and 3 indicate the usual folding and cutting cylinders, and e the web of paper. w designates a conveyor belt arranged below the guides h, h.

Mounted to rotate withthe cylinder at, is a pinion 21 meshing with the "idlers 22, '23, which, in turn, mesh with the beater gear wheels 24,25 respectively.

Gear wheel 26 which is mounted on the same shaft as wheel 25, meshes with gear wheel 27 on whose shaft is mounted gear wheel 28 which meshes with the rocker gear 29. Gear 29 is free'to beadjusted tomesh with any one of thegears 31, 32, 33, 34 or 35.

In the drawings, the rocker gear 29'is shown in mesh with gear 35, but it canbe adjusted to mesh with any of'the other gears by a combined angular and axial movement.

Gear 36'meshes with gear wheel a which reciprocates the roller u.

The rolleru is mounted on an arm 0 and is-adapted to-be travelled horizontally to the position shown in dotted lines, when the gear wheel u is rotated.

A. stapling magazine '13 (Figures5 and 6) is mounted on the bracket m" and the adj oining knife 15 works in a slot therein. Each staple isoper-ated in'turn when roller u arrives at the st'apling-point, that is, at the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, an

abutment 17 on the carriage carrying the roller 14 depresses a pivoted arm 18 and forces the'staples,in the usual manner, through the binding'material j'which is clinched between This action also raises the knife lifiby reason of the pin 19 mounted on the plunger 18, the material 7' being severed against a wood or rubber insert carried in roller 11-. Immediately afterwards, the hooks 20 are depressed for an instant and holding the loose end of the wrapping.

The roller 10 returns; under the material which is left to formthe base of the-next package.

In operation, the web 'epasses to the folding and cutting cylinders 50- and y'respectively,'where copies are cut and folded to halfor page-size and between the folding rollers 0, (Z.

The copies which may be magazines, newspapers or thelike, pass-"on to one of the series of inclined tapes a, a" and are travelled down thereby.

In Figure 1 of the drawings the copies are just about to pass down the tapes a.

During the travel, each magazine or the like is beaten out of the tapes a by means of the rotary beater'e on to the supporting slat or fork f.

around said pile This precedure continues until a quire or other specified quantity has passed through when the slat is lowered to an horizontal position (see slat f in the drawing) by means of the cam n.

The slats then move laterally to release the quire or the like and drop it on to the packingmaterial 9' between the guide members h and they then return to receive the next quire.

In the meantime the switch 10 has been operated bythe cam 01 to divert the next quire of magazines or the like onto the tapes a and these are beaten out by the rotary beater e on tothe slats f. The same cam mechanism deposits this quire on to the first mentioned quire, but the second quire. is laid alternate to thefirst,'-that is,'tl1e backs of-ther magazines orthe like of the firstquire alternate with the fronts ofthe second quireand so on.

The first quire or the like when "deposited horizontally, rests on the packing'material j which may'be'brownipaper with suitable webbing or tape incorporated therein.

The quires are lowered step by step by means ofthe ratchet or reel is between the guide members h, h, and as this is done the packing'material j is unrolled from the reel 70. When the predeterminednumber of quires or the likehas'been assembled three-sidesiof the package have been formed.

The material j is moved across the package by means of point m where the two are fastenedtogether by and the'material is cut, scribed.

The free end of'thematerialis again attached to the bracket mand the roller 10 rethe'topof the roller u'to the pieces'of material for the next! pile. It maybe mentioned that the'time for-the saidroller uto move across and backisthat between the last quire of the'package and the first quire of the next package, namely, about six seconds.

The cut package is conveyor belt to.

'What I claim is 1. Delivery and wrapping apparatus for printing quires or the like of single copies of the product of the: press are deposited horizontally on the "wrapping material, means to deposit a predetermined number'of the said quires or the like in a horizontalpile and alternately, and means to pass said wrapping material and securely fasten same.

2. Delivery and wrapping apparatus for printing presses as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the means, whereby quires or the like of single copies of the product of the press are deposited horizontally on the wrapping'material, comprise two series of inclined tapes, two sides of a triangle with then lowered on to the the stapling device, as h'erembefore dearranged intheform of the apex, posiresses com risin means \Vl1616l3j tioned just below the junction of the usual folding rollers, a plurality of supporting slats positioned under said tapes and a rotary beater adapted to beat out each magazine or the like from the tapes as it travels therealong on to said slats.

3. Delivery and wrapping apparatus for printing presses, comprising means whereby quires or the like of single copies of the product of the press are deposited horizontally on the wrapping material, said means including series of inclined tapes, a plurality of supporting slats positioned under said tapes, and a rotary beater adapted to beat out each magazine or the like from the tapes as it travels along onto said slats, and means for causing specified quantities of magazines or the like to travel down said series of inclined tapes alternately whereby when beaten out onto the supportingslats and deposited on top of one another, said specified quantities will be laid alternately.

4. Delivery and wrapping apparatus for printing presses, comprising means whereby quires or the like of single copies of the product of the press are deposited horizontally on the wrapping material, means to deposit a predetermined number of said quires or the like in a horizontal pile and alternately, and means for gradually lowering the pile as the quires or the like are deposited over one another, whereby when the pile reaches the bottom, three sides of the package have been formed.

5. Delivery and wrapping apparatus for printing presses, comprising means whereby quires or the like of single copies of the prod not of the press are deposited horizontally on the wrapping material, means to deposit apredetermined number of said quires or the like in a horizontal pile and alternately, means for gradually lowering the pile as the quires or the like are deposited over one another whereby when the pile reaches the bottom, three sides of the packages have been formed, and means to pass the wrapping material over the remaining side of the pile and securely fasten the same.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

ARTHUR TERRE-Y. 

